Found (18) clinical trials

This is an open-label trial of ImmuniCell treatment of patients with malignant melanoma, renal cell cancer (RCC) or non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) which are refractory to current treatment or who have indolent disease for which immunotherapy may be beneficial. The trial is designed to identify a safe dose of ...

Over the past two decades it has been observed a clear trend in the increasing incidence of adenocarcinoma of the esophagus and esophago-gastric junction. More than half of these patients already have inoperable disease at presentation. Most of them need palliative treatment to relieve progressive dysphagia. Presently, endoscopic placement of ...

Step 1: Inclusion of eligible patients to carry out a translational search for prognostic and predictive markers of Complete Clinical Response and Pathologic Complete Response (using blood samples and diagnostic biopsies) and to collect data on radiochemotherapy and its toxicity. The trial will evaluate strategies after neoadjuvant treatment and not ...

Adenocarcinoma of the esophago-gastric junction (AEG) represents an aggressive disease with poor prognosis. Surgery is the traditional mainstay of treatment for patients presenting with locally advanced disease, defined as transmural invasion with or without lymph node involvement. Surgical approach may differ, but the principal is to achieve wide mural clearance, ...

Gastric cancer remains a significant global public health problem. Although in developed countries its incidence has dramatically decreased, on a worldwide scale it is still a leading cause of cancer-related deaths. Surgery is the only potentially curative treatment for gastric cancer. Although the survival rates for patients with early stage ...

In this trial, patients with ER and or PR positive breast cancer will be separately randomized to have chemotherapy or chemotherapy combined with endocrine therapy according to their menstrual status. Letrozole for the postmenopausal women and ovarian function suppression for the premenopausal women. Patients with triple negative breast cancer will ...

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To determine if the addition of metformin (metformin hydrochloride) to the standard regimen of carboplatin and paclitaxel prolongs progression-free survival (PFS) in women with advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer. (Phase II) II. To determine if the addition of metformin to the standard regimen of carboplatin and paclitaxel ...

The best treatment for resectable esophageal cancer or cancer between esophagus and stomach (GE junction) is unknown. Although an operation to remove the esophagus is the most common treatment, previous studies have shown that patients live longer when either chemotherapy or chemotherapy plus radiation (chemoradiation) is given before surgery (preoperative), ...